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  1. I generally divide the players up between irl age groups and different eras of internet culture. With oldest to newest being: Pre social media popularity, early to mid 2000’s. Adult social media popularity, MySpace age, mid to late 2000’s. At the same time was the peak of social games for kids and teenagers (RuneScape, Roblox, Habbo Hotel, etc) Facebook popularity, kids on social media. 2010-2014 or so. Kids from social games era try out SL since they can actually manage it from a technical standpoint. Social media decentralization point, 2014-now. Facebook loses popularity as Twitter, Instagram, and other social media sites take over. Another defining aspect of the current SL scene is that it’s more technologically available to run this disaster of an unoptimized game on even dirt cheap entry level laptops. These days you can’t even buy a new laptop with specs weak enough to not play SL decently enough. Expect to see a lot more people slowly be introduced into it. I would also mark this as a resurgence in social games with things like VRchat and teamwork oriented games on PC such as Squad and Insurgency rising in popularity. A problem though is that too much of SL is stuck in the past, like waaaaaaaay in the past. Flickr? Flickr died for literally everyone else 10 years ago. And the serious RP and “not a game” culture has to die. As much as that hurts a lot of people that’s just not the game in 2019. Why is VRchat so popular? It provided a casual setting for “stand around and chat simulator”. SL is not casual enough to attract new users, it’s a pain to play and people take it too seriously. That’s going to be a downfall long term.
  2. *multiple overlapping AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA’s*
  3. So you know the whole stance on “hacking” as a concept right? Very, very rarely is anyone ever “hacked” in any sense. What happens most often is someone is tricked into giving away their account information in one way or another. Maybe they downloaded a keylogger, maybe they signed into a fake version of the website, or attached their account to a forum, got their info skimmed on public wifi, even just got social engineered into giving away details for account recovery questions. Its a very similar sense here. Chances are you did something that allowed the game to move you. Wether you intentionality did it or not is another question. But the chances of someone just fully moving you without any input or control on your end is slim to none, that would be game breaking abuse and very big news.
  4. This would apply to only comments or posts currently being typed out. It would just delete everything in the comment box, not post deletion. Post deletion features are a different matter.
  5. I have a vast collection of opossum pictures
  6. It came on a secondhand PC I bought circa 2009ish. Didn’t know what it was, made an account, used that stock plane avatar to fly around the place as a plane which was pretty cool. Then didn’t touch it again until 2015ish, once again got bored and then made this account in... 2017 or 2018 I think? I honestly can’t remember, I’m far from some kind of oldschool user even though I technically first played in 2009.
  7. This implies I would ever answer my door for anyone other than the Pizza Hut guy, who knocks in a special way. And if I for some reason did and some people stood there and said they had been watching me they would immediately be shot. 🍕🇺🇸🍕🇺🇸🍕🇺🇸🍕🇺🇸🍕🇺🇸🍕
  8. bit more of an explanation using another site to restate the problem, on mobile you cannot backspace your way through a quoted reply to delete it in the editor so something like this to delete everything without having to refresh the page in order to get the "clear editor" text to delete the comment would be useful
  9. Granted, but it’s flaming shots and now we’re all trashed. I wish my cars brakes weren’t warped and wobbly.
  10. On many xenforo forums the reply or thread creation box has a “trash” button which lets you delete everything in the box after a confirmation dialogue. A problem I’m having on the mobile site is that spam pressing my backspace key is the only way to clear out text because the “select all” highlighting option doesn’t work for some reason, and that still doesn’t delete quotes. So I have to refresh the page and click the little “clear editor” text that shows up after you reload the cached message in the reply box.
  11. There’s people like that at social islands all the time, if you have movelock on then suddenly you’re a hacker and being mass reported. The problem I have with reputation systems and post counts is particularly important in sub forums about help. Here it’s not as bad, there are definitely some users who need to learn how to research what they’re saying first, because they tend to feed newbies just outright wrong information. And that’s a mixed bag of people who are farming post counts but also people who haven’t been told they’re wrong because nobody wants to question the person with a five digit post count. Its really bad on the Linustechtips forums in particular, where there are a lot of users who just post for the sake of farming points and post count numbers. I stuck to my word and deleted my account there when I hit 10k posts, I don’t want that to affect the information I give, if I’m wrong I want people to tell me I’m wrong without the community of subservient butt kissers to try and back me up because I’m an “influential user”. It does happen here on SL, in particular with the topic I know a lot about, computer technology. I’m sorry, but there are a select few users here who frequent those threads often and post just blatantly wrong replies. And I will tell you how you are wrong and I will back up my claims. It’s harmful to the person asking help and anyone who googled it in the far future to necrobump the thread to be presented with wrong information that nobody wants to or even can contest because the person who posted it as a bigger e-peen than you. Also just on that, another pet peeve, the people who talk about tech but have no idea what they’re talking about but are damned sure in themselves because a JIRA from 2008 surely MUST still be relevant in 2019. Graphics cards, this argument: ”SecondLife works better on Nvidia cards/doesn’t work well(or at all) on ATI cards” Heres my answer to that: No, you’re wrong in literally every way possible. ATI hasn’t existed since 2006, this was never a problem with the hardware, it’s because circa 2004 ATI was the most popular maker of laptop video chipsets which were not capable of running SL but everyone was a brainlet and presumed that meant ATI was to blame and not the fact that their gpu was weaker than even the lowest end desktop cards of the era. It has absolutely never under any circumstances been an issue of ATI/AMD Silicon Vs Nvidia Silicon. Driver problems happen on both ends, OpenGL support is literally the exact same every generation on either side, you’re wrong and you are coasting on LITERALLY DECADE OLD FALSE INFORMATION and every time I see it I want to scream. I swear to god the next time I see the letters “ATI” posted in any context I’m going to have an actual heart attack.
  12. This is ironic, but forums. Board style social interaction with accounts and stats and all that. It promotes something referred to in the context of Reddit as “karma whoring”. You know that stereotype forum user? Anime profile picture, 20k+ posts, some arbitrary amount of “likes”, has some stupid title under their name and a tag like “platinum contributor”. I hate those people. Because what those people do is gain merit and validation based off virtual number counters. If person A asks a question and persons B and C respond, who’s answer is going to be more valid? Person B who has 20k posts and replies with a low detail wrong answer, or person C who has 10 posts but posts an accurate and explainative answer? Person B, always. People value those internet points. This is why anonymous forums and boards are so popular, everyone is on even grounds. You have no virtual points to value and it does not reflect your statements validities or usefulness. If you say something wrong, there is no other aspect that would potentially convince people you are right.
  13. idk how I feel about this, I think that SL’s social atmosphere has changed a lot since last names were removed and this would affect the expectations of people joining for the more serious “this is a second life” style experience vs “casual stand and chat simulator 2003” The kind of people who want to create a virtual persona vs people like me who named themselves cheesecurd because it’s a funny username. A username can be a lot more expressive than an artificial real-ish (oxymoron?) name. As long as it’s optional and people can still choose to be “buttbrigade resident” I see no issues. But if the selectable last names become mandatory and the only option then I am strongly against it.
  14. SL is a safe grounds to do weird stuff. ”normal people” are a minority here in a world of internet subculture
  15. there’s a pile of computer parts on my desk right now and I’m still using a 13 year old laptop to play SL because I’m lazy
  16. just switched to a male avatar, albeit still furry because im degenerate trash pardon the terrible picture, im playing on a toaster, still havent gotten the new PC slapped together yet 7th floor is probably the only place in this game i can go to for greater than 2fps
  17. Old workstations are always a good budget choice, anything with the Kepler quadro options these days comes super cheap for great performance.
  18. Here’s my pcpartpicker link on that 9900K system. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6b28Jb It would be interesting to see others. There’s a lot more to think of when building a system than just base specs. A 9900K on B365 for example would work, but it would be a terrible choice since B365 can’t overclock nor could any B365 boards provide enough power for a 9900K. Some Z370 boards even can’t, Z390 is a requirement. 2400mhz ddr4 is incredibly low speed these days, 3200mhz is considered the new minimum. A cheap psu is a bad choice, never cheap out on a psu. A 9900K needs a high end cooler, even at stock tbh. Sure you could get a 9900K and 64gb of ram with a 2080 and 3tb of storage for cheaper but it’s not worth the 200$ savings for overall worse components.
  19. Lol, rip Nic, you brainlet. Cykarushb doesn’t play much anymore to quote them at the end of that because they got too busy with their job, temporarily deactivated their account in case it got yoinked, and then forgot about the game and now their account is gone. I’ve been trying to get them to play again but he’s super burnt out on computer games in general. Honestly surprised the forum posts haven’t been deleted yet. That Z61t they mention is mine btw, he was wrong about Intel gma 945 not being able to play SL, it does:
  20. Unrelated to OPs question, as I tend to avoid these topics now and just suggest people go to the Linustechtips forum, tomshardware, Reddit or 4chans /g/ technology board if desired for the sub thread /pcbg/. BUT Just for your reference and others. GT 1030 = RX 550 GTX 1050 = RX 460 GTX 1050ti = RX 560 GTX 1650 or Super or GTX 1060 3gb = RX 570 GTX 1060 6gb or 1660ti or Super = RX 580 or 590 RTX 2060 or Super = Radeon 5700 RTX 2070 or Super = Radeon 5700xt RTX 2080 and 2080ti are still kinda uncontested but the upcoming Radeon 5800/5900/XT are supposedly going to fill that gap. The current midrange gpu market is absolutely retarded with the 1650, 1650 super, 1660, 1660ti, 1660 super and a billion variants of each. The optimal budget gpu is generally considered to be an RX 570 since they’re like 120-130$ new or 80-90$ used. High end gpu prices are at an all time historical high and aren’t worth buying if you have any sense of “value in your build plan. Example, The Nvidia GTX 295 was a top end dual gpu card from 2009 with a 500$ price tag. Accounting for inflation that’s almost exactly 600$ in 2019. In comparison the current top end RTX Titan is 2500$. The 600$ card is a 2070 super which is just the 3rd step on the high end product lineup. Do not buy brand new gpus.
  21. There’s this never ending debate over time of what is and isn’t considered being covered. In the context of a G rated space what is abiding to the rules, from the most strict in concept to the loosest in concept: -SFW avatar, no NSFW features possible, underwear under pants or alpha’d out -SFW avatar, NSFW features possible, underwear under pants or alpha’d out -SFW avatar, alpha only with skirt or dress -SFW avatar, underwear with skirt or dress -NSFW avatar, alpha with skirt or dress -NSFW avatar, underwear with skirt or dress -SFW avatar, no underwear or alpha, just Barbie mode with a skirt or dress -NSFW avatar, no underwear or alpha, following the idea of “they shouldn’t be looking” with a skirt or dress Not to mention the other related endless debates such as if males should wear underwear with bulges or not, or if there should be a bump on ladies underwear, what styles of underwear would be G rated, etc One day we’ll have it figured out and written down. As mentioned in my original post, I don’t count since I’m a furry. Technically I don’t have to wear clothes in any LL operates G rated space provided by avatar is SFW.
  22. https://www.reddit.com/r/secondlife/comments/3nfump/what_do_the_crosshair_colors_of_lookat_mean/
  23. It would be way cheaper to piece one together, probably saving about 100$. More if you hunt locally on Craigslist or whatever or picked up the optiplex or something equivalent at a local auction. But, it’s not the worst of prices for something like that, especially considering the configuration. It’s cheaper than the modern pavilion, and while op loses out on a more modern processor they get an SSD, more ram quantity (though at a loss of ram speed) and a substantially better gpu. Itll play SL well and even has a bit of an upgrade path to an i7 3770, new psu and much higher end gpu in the future, should they want to learn how to replace those parts. By that point those kinds of upgrades would be dirt cheap and worthwhile too.
  24. Men aren’t as interested in social games on average. That’s how it’s always been. If you want a social game and a more male atmosphere, play Runescape. No jokes.
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